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Enrich your travels with reading! Here's a hand-picked list prepared for your journey in conjunction with the book experts at Longitude.

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Eyewitness Guide Prague

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 272 PAGES

This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the celebrated city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (CZH01, $25.00)

Eyewitness Guide Austria

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES

This superb guide to all of Austria features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. (AST59, $25.00)

Prague, A Traveler's Literary Companion

by Paul Wilson

• ANTHOLOGY
• 1996
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES
• BEST SELLER

This anthology of 24 vivid stories by Czech writers, contemporary and well-known, brings the city, history history, spirit and people to life and includes a helpful map for the traveler. (CZH08, $14.95)

Mozart

by Peter Gay

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2006
• PAPER
• 177 PAGES
• BEST SELLER

This concise, entertaining portrait delves into Mozart's complex relationship with his father, his daunting role as a child prodigy and his exploration of new musical territory. (AST43, $14.00)

 

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Eyewitness Guide Vienna

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• FLEXI-BOUND
• 288 PAGES

Take along this handy, compact guide featuring history, culture, color photography and excellent neighborhood maps. (AST01, $23.00)

Frommer's Prague Day by Day

by Mark Baker

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 192 PAGES

This handy, compact guide includes a separate fold-out map of the city center and detailed itineraries for experiencing the best of Prague. (CZH85, $13.99)

Frommer's Vienna Day by Day

by Teresa Fisher

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 180 PAGES

With hand-picked recommendations and highlights, this compact guide offers the "must see" attractions of Vienna for a shorter visit. (AST102, $13.99)

A Nervous Splendor, Vienna 1888-1889

by Frederic Morton

• HISTORY
• 1980
• PAPER
• 340 PAGES

A portrait of Vienna at the end of the 19th century, this book focuses on Crown Prince Rudolph, his devastating suicide and the rich texture of gossip and daily life at the Habsburg Court. It captures the political ferment, intellectual creativity, gaiety and despair of fin-de-siecle Austria. (AST16, $16.00)

Bury Me Standing

by Isabel Fonseca

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1996
• PAPER
• 322 PAGES

This marvelous portrait of the Roma, also known as the Gypsies, offers insight into their music, foods, religions and folk traditions, and also examines their influential but complex relationship with Eastern Europe. (EUR09, $16.00)

Danube

by Claudio Magris

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2008
• PAPER
• 416 PAGES

Mixing history, personalities and literature, Magris traces the course of the Danube from its source in the heart of the Austro-Hungarian empire through the Balkans to the Black Sea in this anything but conventional travelogue, first published in 1986. (EUR58, $17.00)

Prague in Black and Gold, Scenes from Life in a European City

by Peter Demetz

• HISTORY
• 1998
• PAPER
• 352 PAGES

Both a history and accessible guide to the neighborhoods and architecture of the city. (CZH09, $17.95)

The Coasts of Bohemia, A Czech History

by Derek Sayer

• HISTORY
• 2000
• PAPER
• 408 PAGES

A political and cultural history of the Czech people, this intriguing book places the historically important Bohemia and Moravia regions at the center of European events. The author draws on literature, the arts, culture and politics to evoke Czech history, society and identity. (CZH10, $39.95)

The Habsburgs, Embodying Empire

by Andrew Wheatcroft

• HISTORY
• 1995
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES

The Habsburgs ruled over more diverse peoples and cultures than any other European dynasty since the Roman period. With skillful scholarship and engaging style, Wheatcroft reveals the history of this family of eccentric monarchs. (AST11, $17.00)

A Time of Gifts

by Patrick Leigh Fermor

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES
• BEST SELLER

Fermor effortlessly interweaves anecdote, history and culture in this exuberant account of a walk from Holland, up the Rhine and down the Danube, through Germany, Prague and Austria in 1933. Written not in the moment, but 40 years later, the accumulation of time and experience give the book particular poignancy. (CEU30, $16.95)

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera

• LITERATURE
• 1999
• PAPER
• 312 PAGES

Kundera strings together loosely related short stories to form an original and entertaining look at Czech culture. (CZH17, $14.99)

The Complete Stories

by Franz Kafka

• LITERATURE
• 1995
• PAPER
• 486 PAGES

All of Kafka's stories, including The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, and In The Penal Colony. (CZH47, $17.00)

The Radetzky March

by Joseph Roth | Joachim Neugroschel

• LITERATURE
• 2002
• PAPER
• 331 PAGES

Magnificently set against the backdrop of the twilight of the Habsburg empire, Roth's family saga takes in the sweep of history and empire in Central Europe. The richly textured novel opens at the battle of Solferino, when young Lieutenant Trotta saves the life of the Emperor. (AST17, $16.95)

The Third Man and the Fallen Idol

by Graham Greene

• LITERATURE
• 1992
• PAPER
• 157 PAGES

A haunting tale and penetrating portrait of Vienna after World War II, "The Third Man" is the result of Greene's collaboration with Carol Reed on the classic movie. "The Fallen Idol" is a separate tale of intrigue set in Britain. (AST30, $14.00)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

• LITERATURE
• 1999
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

Kundera's intriguing novel, praised for its meditations on the nature of men and women, and on the fearful emptiness of life in Prague under Communist rule. We also carry Kundera's collection of short stories The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. (CZH16, $15.99)

Vienna, A Traveler's Literary Companion

by Donald Daviau

• ANTHOLOGY
• 2008
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

Organized by neighborhood, these 15 alluring tales introduce both the city and its writers, including Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Musil, Stefan Zweig and even Franz Kafka, who had a long and complicated association with the city. (AST94, $14.95)

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